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koth's reading log

  • 20-06-2008 8:45pm
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    Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭


    I'll start with a list of what I've read so far this year.

    Dean Koontz - the darkest evening of the year
    Dean Koontz - the good guy
    Warren Ellis - crooked little vein
    Mitch Cullin - tideland

    Stanley Tookie Williams - redemption (the last testament of stanley tookie williams) (autobiography)

    Bill Hicks - love all the people
    Kevin Smith - my boring-ass life
    Neil Gaiman - fragile things
    Gerard Jones - men of tomorrow (origins of the superhero comic book)
    Susanna Clarke - jonathan strange & mr norrell
    Max Barry - jennifer government

    Declan Hughes - the wrong kind of blood
    Jon Snow - shooting history (autobiography)
    Haruki Murakami - norwegian wood
    Chuck Palahniuk - invisible monsters
    Neil Gaiman - smoke and mirrors
    Harlan Coben - deal breaker
    Greg Bear - blood music

    Robert Jordan - Books 1-9 of the wheel of time series

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Currently reading:

    Robert Jordan - Book 10 of the wheel of time series.

    Martin Gilbert - Kristallnacht

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Finished:

    Book 10 of the wheel of time series.
    Starting to agree with a lot of comments that the series is suffering in the last few books.

    Starting book 11 of the series. Hope it picks up.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Visual Basic 2005 for programmers (work related)

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Finished

    Kristallnacht. Interesting read about the year leading to World War 2. The build up of anti-Jewish violence. Well written with plenty of first hand accounts thrown in for good measure.

    Starting

    Winterwood by Patrick McCabe.
    Need a bit of fiction for a change of pace.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Finished
    Book 11 of the wheel of time series. Not a huge improvement on the last
    few books. My opinion on the series at this stage hangs on how it all ends.

    Starting
    Renegade's Magic, book 3 of the Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobb.
    Have really enjoyed the series so far. The lead character is so different
    compared to a lot of leads in other fantasy series.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Starting

    Beginning C# 2005 express edition

    Still reading
    Visual Basic 2005 for programmers (work related)

    Winterwood by Patrick McCabe

    Renegade's Magic, book 3 of the Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobb

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Starting

    Frankenstein, volume 1 by Dean Koontz and Kevin Anderson.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Starting the book challenge

    Book 1
    The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 2

    one false move - Harlan Coben

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 3

    ubik - philip k dick

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭Blue-Eyed


    Did you like The Graveyard Book?

    I got it for my birthday, and I'm wondering if it's any good ::D


  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Blue-Eyed wrote: »
    Did you like The Graveyard Book?

    I got it for my birthday, and I'm wondering if it's any good ::D

    I did indeed, but to be fair, I'm a big Gaiman fan:D


    And welcome to boards:D

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭Blue-Eyed


    Well thank ye :)

    Guess I'll look forward to reading it! Along with the other 20 books on my book shelf I haven't read yet. :eek: *Sigh*

    -Blue- :eek:


  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 4

    Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 5

    Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 6

    American Scream - The Bill Hicks story by Cynthia True

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 7

    Odd Hours by Dean Koontz

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 8

    Hater by David Moody
    Society is rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent assaults on individuals. Christened 'Haters' by the media, the attackers strike without warning. Their attacks are brutal, remorseless and extreme. There are no apparent links between the Haters or their victims and no obvious reason for their violence. In seconds rational, controlled people become vicious killers. Everyone - irrespective of race, gender, age, sexuality or any other imaginable difference - has the potential to become either a Hater or a victim. This is a terror which knows no boundaries. You can no longer trust anyone, no matter how well you think you know them. You can no longer trust yourself. By the end of today you could be a killer. By the end of today you could be dead. HATER - a new nightmare from the author of the AUTUMN series.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 9

    Dissolution by CJ Sansom
    Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege - a black cockerel sacrificed on the alter, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic. Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes ...

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 10

    What is the what - Dave Eggers
    What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children--the so-called Lost Boys--was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man.

    Have to try and pick up the pace if I want to get the 50 books this year.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 11

    I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 12

    Angry White Pajamas - Robert Twigger

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 13

    grotesque - Natsuo Kirino

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 14
    The Elfstones of Shannara - Terry Brooks

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 15

    Alices adventures in wonderland - Lewis Carroll

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 16

    what we say goes - Noam Chomsky

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 17

    lowboy - John Wray

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 18

    Stephen King - Cell

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 19
    Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie Boasts - Jools Holland

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  • Moderators Posts: 51,683 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Book 20
    The Wishsong of Shannara - Terry Brooks

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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